TVC E. American rapper, record producer and entrepreneur, Andre Romelle Young, better known by his stage name Dr. Dre,was detained by the Police, placed in handcuffs and issued a citation outside his Malibu home following a confrontation with a man.
According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, Deputies say they were called to the home of Andre Young, aka Dr. Dre, on Pacific Coast Highway at about 11:15 a.m. on Monday, July the 25th, 2016 regarding an allegation of a man brandishing a firearm.
They said a man claimed Dr. Dre pointed a gun at him. According to him, he had stopped in front of Young’s home and was ordered to leave by Young, who had a handgun, according to a police release.
Deputies put Young in handcuffs and placed him in the patrol car while they investigated the story.
The press release says Young was cooperative and consented to a search, and also denied all allegations regarding the gun.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said a gun was however not found at the scene.
When asked for his own side of the story, Young said the man was parked directly in front of his home blocking the driveway, and he asked him to leave.
‘Dre began his career as a member of the World Class Wreckin’ Cru and later found fame with the influential gangsta rap group N.W.A with Eazy-E, Ice Cube, MC Ren, and DJ Yella, which popularized the use of explicit lyrics in rap to detail the violence of street life.
His 1992 solo debut The Chronic, released under Death Row Records, led him to become one of the best-selling American performing artists of 1993 and to win a Grammy Award for the single “Let Me Ride”
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